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Nora attended 2 events at the Cineroman Film Festival last month. Click on the gallery links below to see all new photos.
Following a badass turn as Lilly, aka “The Coyote,” in Zack Snyder’s smash zombie heist thriller “Army of the Dead,” it appears that French performer Nora Arnezeder is getting more acting offers in America that she can’t refuse. Chief among them is the aptly titled Paramount+ streaming miniseries “The Offer,” which chronicles the making of the Oscar-winning mob movie classic “The Godfather.”
In an exclusive interview with Looper, Arnezeder — whose latest movie is the new sci-fi drama “The Colony” — said that she believes the exposure she gained in “Army of the Dead” no doubt led to her joining “The Offer.” As Arnezeder explained, it was John Papsidera who cast her in “Army of the Dead,” and he was also the casting director for “The Offer,” which is being helmed by “Rocket Man” director Dexter Fletcher.
“I’m very grateful for [John Papsidera], and to be working with Dexter Fletcher is fantastic,” Arnezeder enthused. “He’s an amazing, amazing guy and director, and we’re having so much fun on set. And he lets me do my thing and improvise.”
Lucky for Arnezeder, Fletcher isn’t the only director she’s worked with who turns actors loose during productions to do their thing. She said director Tim Fehlbaum encouraged her to improvise while making “The Colony,” as did Snyder on “Army of the Dead.”
“I love improvising […] I also love the idea that there’s no such things as mistakes, that we can try things out, and it’s fine,” Arnezeder said. “And someone like Tim, and someone like Zack and Dexter, they’re very similar in that way, that they really understand and give a space to the actors to try things out. And so, I auditioned for ‘The Offer’ and I got the part, and I was thrilled.”
“The Offer” zooms in on the travails of producer Albert S. Ruddy (Miles Teller) as he desperately tries to get “The Godfather” adapted from the novel by Mario Puzo (Patrick Gallo) to the big screen. Several principal characters in front of and behind the camera of “The Godfather” are portrayed in the series, including director Francis Ford Coppola (Dan Folger), and producers Robert Evans (Matthew Goode) and Peter Bart (Josh Zuckerman), not to mention the film’s stars, Marlon Brando (Justin Chambers) and Al Pacino (Anthony Ippolito). Arnezeder stars as legendary hotel owner Françoise Glazer, who eventually marries Ruddy.
“She owns the Chateau Marmont and she’s an interesting character,” Arnezeder revealed to Looper. “She’s a real person. She’s Jewish. She was hidden during the Second World War, reconnected with her mother after the war, moved to Israel and then America. After that, she got married and got the Chateau Marmont.” Also in the series, Arnezeder said, Glazer “meets Al Ruddy, falls in love with him, and he takes on the adventure of producing ‘The Godfather’ […] she witnesses her husband producing the film with all the obstacles that he encounters.”
Naturally, Arnezeder was a fan of “The Godfather” long before auditioning for “The Offer.”
“I mean, Al Pacino? Like, wow,” Arnezeder said, smiling. “It’s interesting to see a story when you watch it as an audience. And then when you get to shoot the story about the making of ‘The Godfather,’ you understand what it took to produce this masterpiece.”
“The Colony” is playing in theaters, and available on digital and video on demand. “The Offer” will debut sometime in 2022.
Nora Arnezeder Dishes On Her Voyage To The Colony, Looks Back On Army Of The Dead, And More
Acclaimed actor Nora Arnezeder has had quite an eventful summer, kicking off in late May with the monster reception to Zack Snyder’s zombie heist extravaganza “Army of the Dead,” which premiered to 72 million Netflix households in its first four weeks of release. That meant a lot of exposure for star Dave Bautista and the actors who played the crew infiltrating a zombie-infested Las Vegas. Among them was Arnezeder, who played Lilly, aka “The Coyote,” a gun-toting ass-kicker who guided the group through the treacherous landscape to retrieve $200 million from an underground casino.
Now, nearly three months after the smashing debut of “Army of the Dead,” Arnezeder is traversing another future apocalyptic landscape in director Tim Fehlbaum’s sci-fi thriller “The Colony.” Debuting in theaters, on digital, and video on demand on Friday, August 27, “The Colony” finds Earth in shambles after wars, pandemics, and climate change devastated the planet. Many of Earth’s inhabitants evacuated Earth decades before for a distant planet called Kepler-209, only to find that the change in atmosphere prevented the ability to procreate.
In a bid to save humankind’s future, astronauts return to Earth from their distant refuge, with Blake (Arnezeder) left as the only survivor after an attack by the planet’s scavengers following her crew’s crash landing. With Earth mostly submerged in water and the state of the planet looking bleak, Blake must find a way to reconnect with a crucial survivor who stayed behind years before to take on forces of evil in a bid to save the future.
In an exclusive interview with Looper, Arnezeder discussed the important themes of “The Colony,” reminisced about her experiences on “Army of the Dead,” and gave a preview of her next project, “The Offer” — a streaming series about the making of the Oscar-winning crime drama “The Godfather.”
READ THE FULL INTERVIEW AT LOOPER.COM
I made screencaps of Nora in the film “In the Cloud”. Click on the gallery link below to see all caps.
Nora posted a new photo on Instagram yesterday with this text:
Great shoot to promote “The colony” aka “Tides”. #Anna Vostrikova. @av_stories @sabrinabmakeup @agnesecabala @lnestyle @annasduo
“The Offer”
It’s an offer the city of L.A. cannot refuse. The Paramount Studios limited series “The Offer,” which chronicles the making of “The Godfather,” is filming now as of July 16, 2021. The most recent filming location has it camped Los Angeles Center Studios in Downtown L.A., according to On Locations Vacations.
The limited series from showrunner Nikki Toscano follows Oscar-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy’s never-before-revealed experiences of making “The Godfather” and features an all-star cast that includes Miles Teller, Juno Temple, Giovanni Ribisi, Dan Fogler, Patrick Gallo, Nora Arnezeder, Jake Cannavale, Justin Chambers, Lou Ferrigno, Colin Hanks, and more. “The Offer” will be released on Paramount+ in 2022 (the exact date has yet to be announced). John Papsidera of Automatic Sweat is the casting director.
I made screencaps of Nora in the film “Here After”. Click on the gallery link below to see all caps.
